elvisali
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I do a full shrink wrapping on mine each year (live in NY). The one year I did leave the full cover on, the cover was never really the same afterwards. The snow didnt do to much damage to the canvas as far as material integrity, but the weight of the snow stretched the canvas out pretty good, one of the support poles also fell during a snow storm, and I was out there trying to shovel snow off the canvas to raise it back up.
As far as the critters, we have a decent racoon population were I keep the boat (one of my neighbors had a racoon family move in to their boat during the winter...wasnt pretty when they finally opened it up- smell could knock you out), so they get small battery operated radios, leave it on a talk radio station and put it inside the boat, within reach of easily grabbing it, and they swear it keeps the racoons and feral cats away.
As far as the critters, we have a decent racoon population were I keep the boat (one of my neighbors had a racoon family move in to their boat during the winter...wasnt pretty when they finally opened it up- smell could knock you out), so they get small battery operated radios, leave it on a talk radio station and put it inside the boat, within reach of easily grabbing it, and they swear it keeps the racoons and feral cats away.
